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CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. "case"), an accident or event, a phenomenon which has no apparent or discoverable cause; hence an event which has not been expected, a piece of good or bad fortune. From the popular idea that anything of which no assignable cause is known has therefore no cause, chance (Gr. -rux?7) was regarded as having a substantial objective existence, being itself the source of such uncaused phenomena. For the philosophic theories relating to this subject see Accidentalism.
"Chance," in the theory of probability, is used in two ways. In the stricter,, or mathematical usage, it is synonymous with probability; i.e. if a particular event may occur in n ways in an aggregate of p events, then the "chance" of the particular event occurring is given by the fraction n/p. In the second usage, the "chance" is regarded as the ratio of the number of ways which a particular event may occur to the number of ways in which it may not occur; mathematically expressed, this chance is nl (p-n) (see Probability). In the Englisk law relating to gaming and wagering a distinction is drawn between games of chance and games of skill (see Gaming And Wagering) .
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Chance f. (genitive Chance, plural Chancen)
(Luke 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by
that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact
fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of
the wounded traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr.
sungkuria) the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two
things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the
providence of God. In the result they fell together according to
the omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the
divine government." Compare the meeting of Philip with the
Ethiopian (Acts 8:26, 27). There is no "chance" in God's empire.
"Chance" is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the
way in which one event falls in with another (1 Sam. 6:9; Eccl.
9:11).
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Chance, as in probability, is a way of expressing the belief that an event will happen, or has happened, and chance, as in luck, is the belief that something happened because of good or bad fortune.
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